Hi,
I currently use a custom TW based firmware for my 910F based upon POF2 firmware. I'm a software developer and developer an app that uses OpenGL ES 3.1. Now I have a problem which seems to be connected to the old version of the Qualcomm Adreno 420 drivers that came with the ROM. Every shader I want to compile fails with the error: "Built-In invariance mismatch". Those shaders worked on the same phone with all 4.4.x based ROMs before. So I now wondered if I can use Adreno 420 drivers for the Nexus 6 (Uses Adreno 420 as well) downloaded from the Qualcomm developer page (drivers from August 2015) and just flash the file to my phone? I already looked inside my system folder and the files on my phone are the same just much smaller and older versions. I'm a little scared if a break everything if i try this. So maybe someone with a little experience with Android drivers for GPUs can tell me if this will be possible?
Best Regards,
CommanderXXL
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Has anyone noticed that google started working with the 3.10 mainline kernel?
Do you guys believe that we may get lucky and get android 4.4 with all the performance fixes of 3.10 or even 3.11?
Kernel(Google Source)
I hope so *crossing fingers*
Sorry but no. Couple reasons I know this: #1: as of two months ago, the nexus 5 was still using 3.4, so I doubt they'd change this late in development meaning the N4 wouldn't either. Also, Qualcomm got rid of support for 8960 and 8064 devices and has not updated their arch specific drivers. I highly doubt that Google would update a Qualcomm chipset that is deprecated. That would be a lot of work for them and the SOC manufacturer creates the majority of the kernel. I am working on 3.10 myself, but don't expect it from Google and Qualcomm for awhile. Qualcomm is only targeting APQ8084, MSM8974, MSM8610, and MSM8226 in 3.10. They explicitly removed support for other chipsets such as our 8064.
Just wondering if anyone is able to post a .zip of the latest adreno drivers (or at least decent ones) so I can flash it to CyanogenMod 11?
Thanks in advance.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s5/general/adreno-3xx-gpu-driver-android-4-4-4-t2855715
that's the latest one from qualcomm.
I guess most people don't care about which driver is included in ROMS as new ROMS are always coming out or being improved upon and with all of the details and specs being listed, driver versions are never mentioned. Is the v84 driver all that we can hope for, nothing newer? I've flashed countless ROMS an never saw anything newer.
Driver versions do matter, I wish they would be listed somewhere in the ROM description.
Somebody has to develop these drivers. You can't just go to a website a download them like nvidia drivers.
And as far as I know, Qualcomm only release the source code for the chips, leaving the development up to whoever is interested.
Is there not an updated driver newer than v84 that already works with the S4? The S4 has gotten official Lolipop OS upgrades, isn't there better drivers already made to work?
Surely Marshmellow OSs have better drivers. Are those drivers not able to be used on the S4? I understand someone has to do the work, but every other aspect of custom roms are being made to function, are GPU drivers just being overlooked as not being important enough to spend time on?
I don't know how this works. But if they could I think they would.
Obviously, Qualcomm has to update the drivers, as it's their chip. So maybe they dropped support for the Snapdragon 600 chips. I don't know.
Tommy807 said:
Is there not an updated driver newer than v84 that already works with the S4? The S4 has gotten official Lolipop OS upgrades, isn't there better drivers already made to work?
Surely Marshmellow OSs have better drivers. Are those drivers not able to be used on the S4? I understand someone has to do the work, but every other aspect of custom roms are being made to function, are GPU drivers just being overlooked as not being important enough to spend time on?
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drivers from another GPU wouldn't be any use to us.
hi , i read detail of my device in most site with 64 bit processor like this :
Octa-core, 1500 MHz, ARM Cortex-A53, 64-bit
but when i download some Apk like SwiftKey Keyboard 64bit arm version and Try to install it , i got error and not installed at all
the Arm version install without problem .
so why This happened ?
is the 64bit processor is fake on my phone or some apps have bugs in 64bit version ? or the 64bit that Samsung mentioned is only part of main core of device software ?
we have seen a few 64bit capable samsung phones like Note 4 that never had a 64bit OS adapted.
Whether you have a 64bit or not, the 32bit installed system is your limitation, not the hardware.
PlutoDelic said:
we have seen a few 64bit capable samsung phones like Note 4 that never had a 64bit OS adapted.
Whether you have a 64bit or not, the 32bit installed system is your limitation, not the hardware.
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is there any chance that on android 6 update , the system installed 64bit ?
or these phones just have some limit 64bit names in processor core
The 32bit version of app work nice too , i`m just curious cause sellers make 64bit cpu too big issue when we want buy
Same on A5, why we have 64 bit cpu when its not use,shame.
Arioman said:
is there any chance that on android 6 update , the system installed 64bit ?
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I am not sure, you may want to ask the AOSP devs here if at least they have x64 builds.
As for stock sammy, i doubt it.
I see that qualcomm has updated adreno drivers in a month, on their official web site: https://developer.qualcomm.com/software/adreno-gpu-sdk/tools
I'm wondering about how I'm going to do this. I've updated my old phone's adreno 205 driver before and there was a big performance increase. I believe this update will be nice to us. Flashing, odin or anyway ?